Glenwood banker accused of stealing $40K, fleeing

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Aug 31, 2011 at 12:01 AMAug 31, 2011 at 3:20 AM

CHICAGO — The FBI says an assistant bank manager is being held in the Dominican Republic after allegedly stealing nearly $40,000 from a suburban Chicago bank where he worked, then fleeing the country the same day.

CHICAGO — The FBI says an assistant bank manager is being held in the Dominican Republic after allegedly stealing nearly $40,000 from a suburban Chicago bank where he worked, then fleeing the country the same day.

The FBI's Chicago office reports 25-year-old that Blazej Wasilewski has been charged with taking the money from a Chase Bank branch in Glenwood.

Dominican police on Saturday arrested the Palos Hills man after he arrived on a flight from Chicago. He allegedly had the stolen money with him and didn't declare it.

A criminal complaint accuses Wasilewski of switching off the bank's electrical power Friday evening. He allegedly returned the next morning, deactivated an alarm and opened the vault.

A voice message on a Palos Hills phone number for Wasilewski says it's been disconnected.

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